Grumble, grumble, grumble
Lartan the stolid, scarred, and fairly boring looking general. If I ever get around to finishing enough of the sprites that my brother can actually write chapters, I’m not taking him. Lartan, I mean. I also drew him upside down on the paper. And I’m very bad at designing cool Fire Emblem armour.
I am noble-minded! Plus I have a big lance.
MY BROTHER THINKS THIS IS THE BEST PICTURE I EVER DREW.
I don’t know why. I think it might have to do with the fact that it’s of his lord-class hero character of his Fire Emblem dream game that he’s writing. This youth’s name is Cedric, and he’s the prince of Almarlia. That’s about all I know about the game, besides the fact that his Jeigan-type paladin-class character is called Lartan. Also, I shaded. And did lots of detail.
I’ve done concept art for a bunch of guys: my favourite so far is a sage-class named Shale with creamy long crinkly hair in a very extremely loose ponytail tied with black velvet ribbon.
Boo!
I like this picture. It’s of a hawk laguz named Anne. I made her up because I like hawks, and I like pretending I am one – when no one’s around. This is opposed to my usual fashion of creating characters: a) so-and-so is handsome, so they obviously need someone to share their life with, and b) this NPC needs a name and background because he/she looks so darn cool.
Anyhow, Anne is a perky young hawk – not over 50 – who cleans the king’s chambers, hence the mop and bucket. She is perhaps the only one of my characters to have a bare midriff. Hey, she’s a hawk, which means athletic, and they live in a fairly southerly climate, where it’s rather warm. And short hair is something new, too. Her most memorable feature is the fact that her right wing is deformed, from birth.
Flap…
This picture is of… King Tibarn of the hawks consulting with Ike, and Janaff to get in the way- er, help. They demonstrate their incredible shapeshifting power. Ike begins to get a plan. He’s supposed to be going ‘hmm’ in the second half.
Pfft, yeah right. As if he’d forget they can transform. I can’t draw hands.
Don’t worry, darling, I’m here
Ugly picture… somehow, I lost all sense of realism here, and it came out looking like… well, really bad. Anyway, I got Howl’s Moving Castle, I guess for my birthday, and it quickly became my favourite Miyazaki movie, especially since it’s his only movie with any sort of overt romance. Plenty of others – Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, etc – hint at it, especially WotH, but HMC is the sweetest. And it’s full of drama.
Ooh, they’re so shiiiiiiny
I love this picture, even though it’s technically not finished. There should be more crowds, for one thing; that’s why the buildings on the left aren’t done. I decided that 15 was enough knights, including Flaer and Zela – for that’s who the two unhelmeted riders are. There’s so much in this picture, like several swooning girls, talking, excited riders, city, unicorns, blah blah blah… I’m afraid to touch it in case Zela’s hair gets smudged. The horses are still not great, but they are better than some, especially Yoeath, Zela’s unicorn, who was here still called Mist. Also, the armour looks actually pretty well developed, even if it’s not armour that a normal knight person would wear. It’s been skewed by Fire Emblem. Sorry.
This picture was inspired by the Dream March from Copland’s Red Pony Suite.
Fanfare!
This picture was inspired by the first movement of the Red Pony Suite by Copland. I tried the backlight thing, where the light sort of wraps around the figure. It didn’t work so well, and she has terrible ears. Maybe it’s that her head is too small. And by the way, her sword hilt design is finalized; at least it was in the profile avatar sketch and I used it again here. Her hair is too long.
I have a lens flare on my sword; fear me!
Ha, this is a cool picture despite the technical problems. The guy in the middle is the ‘hero boy’, Ron. The Meticulous Dwarf Wiz is the short guy, and then Jervis is the ‘axe boy’ over on the left. On the right, the chick is named Marialla and keeps her lockpicks in her purse. Ha. Lastly is Flairé: yah! Continue reading
Albinos have all the power
This is Bran from The Dark is Rising series. He’s an albino with golden eyes. He wears sunglasses so as not to freak people. He teaches Will Staunton to pronounce Welsh, which I think is pretty cool. And this picture still doesn’t look like him much at all. My portraiture is still primitive.
KURATOWA!!!@*&$
I was given the next couple of books of Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind for my birthday, and the second one was the one in which the bugs eat Kushana’s brother’s ship. Which was all Kuratowa’s fault, so I figured, since she was so happy about it… (snork)